One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.